Currency Converter – The Internet Age
The internet has changed the way we communicate, the way we shop and the way we do business nationally and internationally – online gadgets such as a currency converter can make life easier.
It's hard to imagine life without the internet. We use it to find old school friends, keep in touch with distant relatives, locate an out of print book, buy our shopping and book holidays. And with it comes a plethora of cool tools to help make life that little bit easier. If you're thinking of going on holiday or doing business abroad for example, a currency converter is an instant way of getting to grips with foreign currency.
Currency Converter and iGoogle
And the Web 2.0 revolution means the internet is becoming more intuitive to user's needs. As well as social networking sites like Facebook and useful tools like currency converters, online language translators and a whole host of websites offering advice, experts are now predicting the ‘iGoogle' generation.
iGoogle – Changing the Way you Work
What is iGoogle? iGoogle is the company's personalised home page that promises to become your point of call on the web. Using iGoogle you can add gadgets and tools such as a currency converter or news feed to suit your internet needs. It basically customizes the web based on your search results. So if you Google ‘currency converter', iGoogle will personalise your search results. If you're British, you'll get a UK currency converter, if you're American, you'll get a US version. iGoogle compiles information about you, what interests you and what you use the web for based on your searches. It can then personalise your search results.
Marketer's Dream
Clearly, this is every marketer's wet dream – the idea that people can be targeted so precisely is a win-win situation for advertisers. Although iGoogle is an extension of the Web 2.0 platforms that aims to be more interactive and eventually even use artificial intelligence – there are sceptics. It may be useful having your own personalised currency converter if you travel or do business abroad a lot but there are privacy issues at stake too. Industry experts have warned that this personal information could be disclosed by accident, hacked into or even monitored by governments. Knowing that someone has access to your search history and every website you've ever visited can be scary stuff- even if it is just an innocent currency converter!
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